Title :
Quantitative test of the ab initio intrinsic laser linewidth theory
Author :
Cerjan, Alexander ; Pick, Adi ; Chong, Y.D. ; Rodriguez, Alejandro W. ; Johnson, Steven G. ; Stone, A. Douglas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA
Abstract :
Direct FDTD simulations of the Maxwell-Bloch equations coupled to Langevin noise equations are shown to quantitatively agree with a recent analytic linewidth formula and predicted scaling relations.
Keywords :
Maxwell equations; ab initio calculations; finite difference time-domain analysis; laser noise; laser theory; optical testing; spectral line breadth; Langevin noise equations; Maxwell-Bloch equations; ab initio intrinsic laser linewidth theory; direct FDTD simulations; quantitative optical test; Cavity resonators; Finite difference methods; Lasers; Mathematical model; Power generation; Predictive models; Time-domain analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
